AMERICANS ALL: Jews in the Making of Glorious America
by Leonard, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY: Behrman House, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1945. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. 8vo (6 x 9"). (viii), 232 pp. 3rd Printing. Bound in publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt (silver) lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated with B&W drawings by Ellen Simon. The volume has a gift inscription on the ffep and a former owner's printed bookplate on the fep, but is otherwise in virtually perfect condition. The dust jacket (now in Mylar) has an approximately 1" piece missing at the head of the spine and is lightly sunned along the top edge, else fine. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD+. Grandfather tells Benny how Jews helped in the Discovery and Building of America. They came from many lands. They spoke many tongues. They brought with them love of liberty, power to work and dreams of a better world. Some of them knew suffering but none of them wavered. They came to help make America great. Not dry history or dull biography but vivid drama with thrilling plot and stirring action. . Drawings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3603
- Title
- AMERICANS ALL: Jews in the Making of Glorious America
- Author
- Leonard, Oscar
- Illustrator
- Ellen Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Behrman House, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Judaica, History, Americana, Immigration, United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- Judaica;
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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